Contrary Quotes - Page 30

• If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to accept another mind in place of your own and generally contrary to your own. When religious belief comes in brains go out

  Marilla Ricker

  Religious, Believe, Mind

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• Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Military, War, Army

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• Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.

  Oliver $

  Farewell, Writing, Mean

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• To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved.

  Samson Raphael Hirsch

  Age, Pulse, Would Be

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• It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Men, Gambling

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• That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Yield, Inspired

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the highest development. But in practise, it is not a question of the future socialist society, with an established internal equilibrium, but of the given technically and culturally backward country which in the interests of industrialisation and collectivization is forced to export as much as possible in order to import as much as possible.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Socialist Economy, Division Of Labor

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

  Kevin Costner

  Grain, Persons

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• But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Corporations, Wikileaks

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fighting, Space, Desire

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• To say that there should be no immigration, yes, that is definitely contrary to the best values of America that were laid out in the Declaration of Independence and since.

  Tim Kaine

  America, Independence, Immigration

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing to themselves. Yes, they may at the moment have incredible power and are supported almost unconditionally by especially America, but most of the West as well. Yet what they are doing is contrary to the best teaching and highest teachings of their faith.

  Desmond Tutu

  Teaching, Israel, America

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war.

  Indira Gandhi

  War, Long, People

  Source: sangam.org

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• Let me just say that anything that I say about what's going on at Justice is pure speculation. Obviously, you know, I'm just going based on my experience as the attorney general, but, yeah, surprised because typically you don't talk about investigations. And it kind of surprised me that that letter went out, and I suppose that the reason for it is because we're in the middle of a presidential campaign. But nonetheless, I think it would be contrary to typical protocol.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, Justice, Presidential

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think needs to be said. I mean I've known her for 40 years. I worked with her, I know her well professionally. I know her well personally. I know her to be a person of high moral character. A reliable person and an honest person, however Mr. [Donald] Trump may rant and rave to the contrary. So I'm happy to say that. People can make their own choices.

  William Weld

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Would Be, Chief Executives

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted against each other and it runs so contrary to the E pluribus unum American middle class experience.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Running, Class, Organization

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• When I became vegan I thought I would have to deprive myself of certain sweets that I loved so much, like caramel and peanut butter cups, but on the contrary!

  Kat Von D

  Sweet, Peanut Butter, Cups

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Contrary to what people are saying, you can't go by what people say, but by their spirit.

  Stevie Wonder

  People, Spirit

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the undertaking to decide that question for others, without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.

  John Stuart Mill

  Feelings, Doctrine, May

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• Liftoff is very, very gentle, contrary to what most people think. Because you remember, the weight of the booster - the amount of thrust on the engine is just barely enough to get the booster underway. And so it's a very gentle liftoff, contrary to what most people think when they see all the fire and smoke of launch.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, Fire, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Political populism always poses a great danger because it disorients people, creates excessive expectations or, on the contrary, prioritises objectives that are clearly not priorities or are simply impossible to achieve.

  Vladimir Putin

  Expectations, People, Priorities

  Source: www.rt.com

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• You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.

  John Burroughs

  Law, Nuclear, Use

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• The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On the contrary, it invites and prods us to make responsible choices, to take responsibility for the choices that we have made... It was always like that, and our holy scripture grows over the centuries, gets thicker and thicker, with more texts around, which need/have to be looked into, referred to, considered.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Responsibility, Choices, Focus

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Creativity, Independence

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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